Predicting Melt Pond Fraction on Landfast Snow Covered First Year Sea Ice from Winter C-Band SAR Backscatter Utilizing Linear, Polarimetric and Texture Parameters

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Ramjan, Saroat, Geldsetzer, Torsten, Scharien, Randall, Yackel, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Remote Sensing 2018
• Subjects: melt pond fraction; snow; SAR; polarimetric parameters; GLCM texture; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; Resolute Bay; Resolute Passage; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12218; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101603

Early-summer melt pond fraction is predicted using late-winter C-band backscatter of snow-covered first-year sea ice. Aerial photographs were acquired during an early-summer 2012 field campaign in Resolute Passage, Nunavut, Canada, on smooth first-year sea ice to estimate the melt pond fraction. RAD...